EPISODES
| 401 The Avengers | 409 My Two Dads |
| 402 The Gringos | 410 The French Connection |
| 403 The Cold Turkey | 411 The Dream Lover |
| 404 The Metamorphosis | 412 Groundhog Day |
| 405 The Sleeping Beauty | 413 Case of the Franks |
| 406 The Summer Bummer | 414 The Shake Up |
| 407 The Chrismukk-huh? | 415 Night Moves |
| 408 The Earth Girls Are Easy | 416 The End's Not Near, It's Here |
| ~ | ~ About The Show |
"It's nothing personal,
she annoys me too. I sometimes think that's a good thing."
- Kaitlin, about Julie
"A few grunts and an
occasional shrug."
- Sandy, missing Ryan's dinner company
"You made me a comic
book?"
"This is no ordinary
comic book, my friend. This is an origin story. Now, you may have never
saved the planet, but you did save us, so... This is our story."
- Ryan and Seth
"She has a whole slew
of missed assignments and during bio lab, Mr. Cassel got the strong sense
Kaitlin was flirting with him."
"Is he the really
short one? I'm sure she just thought he was a student."
- Dean Torres and Julie Cooper
"How did you get here
before me? Do you have a secret twin? Because that would explain so much."
- Summer to Taylor
"When was the last
time you shaved your legs? It's like a forest. Oh my god! your toenails!"
"Yeah, I don't do
that stuff anymore."
"Obviously. You've
got hobbit feet."
- Taylor and Summer
"First we do shots!
Then we find your friend!"
- Drunk Army Guy to Seth
"What do you want?"
"Nothing, actually,
18 tequillas is my limit... I'm looking for my friend Ryan, he's in there
somewhere..."
- Bartender and Seth
"Move it, hippies!"
- Taylor
"Have you ever tried
sleeping outside? There's so much grass and you can't turn off the stars."
- Summer, on the downside of saving the planet
"I don't do love triangles
anymore."
- Summer
"You know what I think
this is?"
"A coded message."
"Nothing. Probably
the name of a band. Seth wrote it on a paper and put it in his pocket.
Relax, sweetheart."
- Sandy and Kirsetn
"Dad, it's me. Did
you get my note? I had to write it in code in case Ryan found it."
"Right. The note."
- Seth, on the phone to Sandy
"So did you kill him?
I mean that was the plan, right? Not the lie you told me when you said
'Trust me, man.'"
- Seth to Ryan
"You know some of us
are still alive."
- Kaitlin to Julie
"I'm not angry. I just
wish he was dead that's all."
- Ryan
"Seth, one day when
I'm no longer sleeping under your bed you're gonna miss me."
- Taylor
"Taylor, what are you
doing out?"
- Seth
"I still can't believe
you had no reaction to my tattoo."
"I had a reaction.
I told you to get that thing removed."
- Seth and Summer
"Okay, who here has
not seen Battlestar Galactica season one?"
"I missed the season
finale."
"Get ready to have
your mind blown. In this, Starbuck is a woman."
- Seth entertains the homeless guys
"Smile. Apologise.
Lie. Do whatever it takes."
- Julie, with some advice for Ryan
"Kaitlin! Where are
you going?"
"To the Cohens! They
don't hate the whole family, just you!"
- Julie and Kaitlin
"The Lord giveth and
the Lord taketh away — as a child I went to Bible School and all those
quotes kinda stuck with me."
- Taylor, with some Thanksgiving wisdom
"Tell me about her."
"What?"
"Anything. Just...
tell me about her."
- Julie and Ryan
"I remember the first
time I saw her... She was standing at the bottom of the driveway... And
she gave me this smile..."
"It was a beautiful
smile."
- Ryan and Julie
"Careful, lady. My
girlfriend's gonna be here any second."
"Shut up, Cohen."
"Hey. You just punched
me. My baby's back."
- Summer and Seth
"I'm gonna walk back
— sweaty."
"Yeah, I wasn't gonna
offer you a lift."
- Ryan and Sandy, after a beach run
"You know you might
want to relax."
"Distract me. Tell
me about this, uh, cage fighting. It's something I've been meaning to get
into."
"Yeah? Ask me for
another favor and I'd be happy to show you."
- Ryan and Taylor
"You know that shirt
really brings out your eyes."
"It's black."
- Taylor and Ryan
"Sometimes a guy just
wants to hang with other guys... Jimmy left. Caleb died. Then Jimmy left
again..."
- Sandy
"I don’t have that
many guy friends anymore... When we were kids, all you had to do was ask:
'Hey, want to play some pool?'. And we didn’t have cell phones."
- Sandy
"Here's to be stupid
for a while."
- Sandy, with the game a beer and a buddy
"Where I come from
we just say 'hey'."
"Well, to borrow your
native tongue — 'hey'."
- Seth meets Che
"I don’t like the show
anymore. All you hear are fake problems, fake people just to distract from
the real problems in the world."
"I don't think the
network work go for a sexy teen soap set in Damascus."
- Summer with Seth, growing out of 'The Valley'
"You’ll never get to
forget about her. But... life goes on."
"Not the same way."
"No... But you have
got to make this life work."
"But I do, you know.
I got a job, I go there, and go home, and talk to the fewest people possible."
- Sandy and Ryan
"Honey, even with the
wonders of elective surgery, you’ll only be this hot for so long. Have
fun when you can!"
- Taryn to Julie
"Don’t worry, we’ll
find you another old dude to pay for all your stuff and cheat on you."
"Is that what I’m
teaching you?"
"Pretty much."
- Julie and Kaitlin
"I made a bet with
my mom that I'd stay out of trouble — and this sounds like trouble."
- Kaitlin, to Brad and Eric
"There's one man who
can always get me onto the dancefloor. Jose — Jose Cuervo."
- Taryn, slamming some Tequila
"There's no one older
than a high school senior, and no one younger than a college freshman."
- Taylor, reminding Ryan about her commencement speech
"If you don't hear
from me for a while it's not because I love you. It's because I do."
- Seth with a message for Summer
"Bollywood, huh? I
didn't know you were such a world cinema buff. Especially at 2:30 in the
morning."
"What are you doing
up?"
"I had a dream. Summer
was marrying Ralph Nader and I was playing the marimba at the wedding."
"Good gig."
- Seth and Ryan
"You might want to
sit down. I have huge news and a favor to ask of you."
"You're in love with
Ryan and you want my help convincing him to date you."
"Wow."
"You said he was funny.
It's kind of a giveaway."
- Taylor and Seth
"I was raised by a
she-wolf of a mother who practiced emotional terrorism."
- Taylor
"Why do you have to
hook up with Spencer? I mean, couldn't you've seen that I liked him?
"He is 10 years older
than you and no, I couldn't see that!"
"Well, I was flirting
with him!"
"You flirt with everybody."
"So do you!"
"You are 15 years
old."
"And you are my mother."
- Kaitlin and Julie, Coopers both
"Easy girl."
- Taylor, walking in on a fresh-from-the-shower Ryan
"Aww, it's a Wonder
Woman paperweight."
"Seth gave me his
employee discount."
- Kirsten and Sandy
"Call me crazy but
maybe Madeline Albright doesn't need to be hot."
- Sandy to Bullit
"When are you allowed
to call Summer again?"
"10:03 tomorrow."
- Ryan and Seth
"Taylor! Taylor...
are you wearing pyjamas?"
- Ryan, surprised by 'sleep coach' Taylor
"Are you seriously
trying to Jedi mind trick me?"
- Taylor to Seth
"I got a rabbit."
"Really? What's its
name? Is it Gorgon, destroyer of carrots?"
- Summer and Seth
"Kiss me. I think there's
something there and if you kiss me I think you'll feel it too."
- Taylor to Ryan
"She's driving a silver
Mercedes, made in the 80s..."
- The soundtrack to Ryan's vision of Taylor
"I keep imagining her
on rollerskaes or washing windows..."
- Ryan can't get Taylor out of his head
"Things are weird and
about to get weirder."
- Ryan, before his date with Taylor
"Did you ever think
decapitation could be so beautiful?"
- Taylor, watching "Bloodbath #4" with Ryan
"Where are you?"
"I'm in your room."
"I'm in *your* room."
- Summer and Seth
"I listened to stupid
Che and his stupid plan and he sold me down the stupid river."
"I knew anyone that
sincere was not to be trusted."
- Summer and Seth
"You could at least
act like it's halfway possible that I could avenge your honour."
- Seth to Summer
"Since he's out of
town and he's going to be moving out next semester you're going to need
a new Seth. Don't tell Sandy, but I thought I would audition for the job."
"That's very thoughtful."
"So, how does it work?
Do I ask you what's on your mind?"
"Usually you talk
about yourself and I solve my problems on my own."
- Kirsten and Ryan
"If there's anything
else you need, I'm gonna be up in my room reading comic books and listening
to indie rock."
"That's a good Seth."
- Sandy and Ryan
"Taylor isn't in there
with you guys is she?"
- Ryan, walking in on Roger and Connor
"Hello 911? I'd like
to report a totally lame party."
- Kaitlin, closing down her own party
"Nobody came to my
party!"
"So you dresses like
a 'ho for no reason?"
"I changed before
I got here."
- Kaitlin, taking the school's queen bee down a peg
"What are you doing
paying your gay friend Roger to pretend he's in love with you?"
"Well, what if I did?
Hm? What if I did rent a homosexual for the evening and pay him with rare
collectibles from Asian cinema? What difference does it make to you?"
"Well, it's a little
strange."
"Well, so am I. Which
is why you ran away from me last night."
"No, it wasn't 'cause
you're strange."
"What, you don't find
me strange?"
"No, I do. But it's
not why I took off."
- Ryan and Taylor
"Just how old are you?"
- Julie to Kailtin
"So now you think I'm
a liar?"
"And a chicken, a
snake, and a rat."
- Che and Summer
"So he was a liar,
coward and a hypocrite but at least he had depth."
- Seth, summing up Che
"What's the life span
on one of these things?"
- Seth, after Summer shows him Pancakes the rabbit
"Poor Ryan, all of
his muscles are so developed except for the ones in his mouth. You want
to invite me for Chrismukkah but you don't know how, so I will save you
the trouble. I would love to come."
"Taylor look, I don't
know whats going on between us, but its only been a few weeks."
"And you think if
you invite me for Chrismukkah that makes me your girlfriend."
"I don't want to hurt
your feelings, but yeah."
- Taylor and Ryan
"I am so grateful that
if I have to be in a parallel universe that you're here with me. Of course
you probably wish you were with someone that you actually want to date.
That would be nice, wouldn't it?"
"Oh, even in a parallel
universe she never stops."
- Taylor and Ryan
"Even Homeless People
Have Christmas."
- Alternate Julie's Charity Slogan
"We're having a very
Britney Christmas, mother."
- Kaitlin to Julie
"Uh, what... what did
you mean 'knew'?"
"She died three years
ago."
"What?"
"She OD'd in an alleyway
in Tijuana."
- Ryan and alternate Kaitlin
"I'm from an alternate
universe where your dad adopted me and you and Summer are in love. And
unless I fix things here — which means getting your parents and you and
Summer together — I can't go home."
"I always knew this
would happen."
"Doesn't surprise
me."
- Ryan and alternate Seth
"Omigod! In alt-world
I'm a boy!"
- Taylor
"What you two are best
at is being married to each other."
- Ryan, to alternate Sandy and Kirsten
It takes a pretty blind
eye not to recognize Marissa's utter selfishness over the majority of three
seasons. She was a self-centered, self-absorbed, and, well, self-everything
really except -sufficient. She constantly brought Ryan down with her, and
many of Ryan's problems since he arrived in Newport can be traced back
to Marissa. Aside from turning herself in for shooting Trey, she didn't
do much for Ryan... But this letter completely changed that, I think. You
can effectively argue that it was simply the writers' way of bringing Taylor
and Ryan together, but I do think it fits perfectly in the continuity of
the series, and it actually shows us that Marissa really did mature in
the final months of her life, something the show seemed to want to tell
but didn't know how to show. Through this letter, Marissa smartly broke
ties with Ryan. Their relationship was self-destructive, and they were
never going to be completely happy together, and it's pretty amazing that
people ever believed that it could. And I love that Marissa, who I used
to think had the IQ of a special needs monkey, was the one who realized
what needed to be done. She had to move on, and she knew Ryan did, too.
- Drew Timmons, from his Blogspot review
of "The Chrismukk-huh?"
"Do I need to remind
you why you're here right now?"
"Because you haven't
killed me yet?"
- Ryan and Seth, in flash forward mode
"Jamaican Me Crazy?"
"It's funny because
it's not."
- Summer and Seth, after Seth gives her a 'funny' Tshirt
"You didn't make any
plans for us, did you?"
"Well I thought we
would just-"
"What? Jamaican up
as you go?!"
- Summer and Seth, with no plans for New Years' Eve
"No plans... that's
a dirty word."
- Seth
"What do you wanna
do now?"
"Oh, curl up in a
fetus position and weep. Although perhaps the unborn baby metaphor—"
"Not really appropriate."
- Ryan and Seth
"Do you think I'm a
whore?"
- Taylor to Ryan
"What do you know about
laundering money?"
- Julie
"He couldn't remember
his name, but he remembered mine."
- Sandy, on a confused client
"Let's get you out
of this Pilgrim outfit."
- Bullit to Julie
"We need an emergency
evacuation!"
- Seth, to a comic fan with wheels
"Just to be clear-"
"Everything but."
- Ryan and Taylor, about to get intimate
"You got engaged? Why
didn't you say something sooner?"
"Denial."
"Hm. Romantic."
- Taylor and Summer
"Now that I'm without
child..."
- Summer
"I'm thinking bagpipes
and maybe a replica of the starship Enterprise."
- Taylor, planning a possible Roberts-Cohen wedding
"So you asked her before
you looked at the test?"
"I was trying to be
a man. A plan with a fundamental conceptual flaw."
- Ryan and Seth
"Acting impulsively
when your girlfriend is pregnant, believe me, I know about that."
- Ryan to Seth
"Eh, the ring you gave
her glows in the dark."
"Yeah, it's so cool!"
- Ryan and Seth
"If you're too chicken
to tell her how you feel, give her no choice but to tell her how she feels
... smoke her out."
- Ryan and Seth
"So what are you going
to do? Level with him and tell him the truth?"
"Frak that. He wants
a game of chicken he's gonna get it."
- Taylor and Summer
"And I brought the
Torah, you're converting to Judaism."
- Seth, trying to smoke out Summer
"Now you don't want
to call it off because you don't want to hurt his feelings?"
"Mmmm."
"Or cause if you do,
he'll get the upper hand?"
"Exactly."
"Now we're talking
my kind of dating game."
- Julie and Summer
"Manipulating the opposite
sex. God Julie, why didn't I come to you earlier!"
- Summer
"Not that I don't look
forward to one day becoming Jewish..."
- Summer
"Pancakes... I thought
he should stay for a while with you. See if my husband can take care of
something small and vulnerable."
- Summer to Seth
"Yeats. Shelley-"
"Have you been working
on the guest list?"
"Poets."
- Seth, kinda discussing wedding vows with Summer
"I love her enough
to ask her to marry me. I'm not going to lose her."
"You mean lose *to*
her."
- Seth and Ryan
"We're supposed to
talk about the book from Buck's perspective. And Buck was a dog, so Woof,
woof, woof, woof, woof, woof..."
- Kaitlin
"Hey."
"Are you alright?"
"I'm from the Bronx,
used to hit guys all the time. Key term, used to."
- Sandy and Ryan
"Brilliant plan. Good
luck getting rejected."
"Fortunately it's
something I excel at."
- Ryan and Seth
"When the world zigs,
we zag."
- Seth, about his relationship with Summer
"She's hilarious, for
one. My favorite thing in the world is to make her laugh because she has
a crazy honk of a laugh."
- Seth, on what he likes about Summer
"As far as prisons
go it's very beautiful."
- Che, in Summer's vision of her wedding dress
"What are you doing
tomorrow night?"
"You asking me out?"
"Are you saying yes?"
"You go first."
"Okay. You’re cordially
invited to hang out in my house. With me."
"I’d like to accept
your invitation."
- Kaitlin and Will
"Stupid Winter clothing
drive."
"You may not know
this, but there are homeless people that live in Newport."
"Really? ...Hi Daryl,
Hi Bill.
"Hey Kaitlin."
- Kaitlin and Will help out the homeless gang (including Daryl and Bill)
"I’ve known you a long
time, Julie. This isn’t a matter of cloudy judgement and questionable morals.
This is breaking federal law."
- Kirsten to Julie
"Bathing is for the
burgeoise."
- Jean Michel
"This constant sunshine
is so banal."
- Jean Michel, on Newport life
"You used to go on
a French talk show?!"
- Ryan to Taylor
"French philosophy
at 7am in the morning? Ouch..."
- Sandy to Ryan
"So you're the friend
of Mademoiselle Townsend?"
"Yes. What's happening?"
"They started out
talking about A Season for Peaches and now somehow they are into Existentialism
of the 21st century, the responsibility of the post-Colonial age, Johnny
Depp. Amazing!"
- Ryan, mingling with the 'Je Pense' crew
"After I heard about
your research—traveling to Hume's personal archive in Edinburgh—even I
was impressed."
"I'm sure you were."
- Jean Michel and Ryan
"They're gonna call."
- Summer to Taylor, about Seth and Ryan
"Maybe we should call
them?"
- Ryan to Seth, about Taylor and Summer
"If you'll excuse me,
I have a legitimate business to run — one that doesn't involve hookers."
- Kirsten to Julie
"Talk is cheap Ryan,
if you're ging toe-to-toe with this frenchie, you need to step your game
up."
"I can't believe I'm
getting advice from a 15-year old."
"A 15-year old who's
right."
- Kaitlin and Ryan
"He was feeling strange
Seth vibes."
"All the way from
Rhode Island?"
"Che transcends space
and time."
- Summer and Taylor
"Go with it. You're
in the spirit world, man. This is the very last part of your journey."
"Ryan likes Journey."
- Che and Seth
"I can hear you! What's
that, little fella? You don't feel well? That's okay. I can take care of
you. I don't exactly know what that means, but maybe I can get you back
in the ocean with all your otter friends. And you can do otter-related
activities."
- Seth, to his otter animal guide
"Just so we're, the
only reason I'm here is 'cos I know you don't want me to be."
- Kaitlin, to Lucy, at the band bake sale
"Why do you make fun
of the things that make Will Will?"
- Lucy to Kaitlin
"A sonnet: I don't
know how to write.
A haiku: 5-7-5 seems
too tight.
Then there are three
little words I'm not able to say.
But Taylor, this is
what I can tell you today.
Though I can't say
those words tonight.
Please stick with
me because I feel someday I might."
- Ryan's poem to Taylor
I love you but I love
love more. And I don't want to be alone in it.
- Henri Michel's message for Taylor
"I was hoping you'd
be there to do something weird so it wouldn't be so boring."
- Kaitlin, inviting Taylor to a party
"Beside getting you
kicked out of college you know I'd never do anything to hurt you."
- Che to Summer
"No one plans a surprise
party like Sandy Cohen. I could've worked for the CIA."
"Why, are they known
for their surprise parties?"
- Sandy and Seth
"Che, hey, are you
there? Or is this a dream?"
"Unless this whole
life is a dream."
- Seth and Che
"Rise and shine, my
brother! For the clarion call of justice has rung across the land!"
[rips his covers off
the bed]
"I'm glad I don't
sleep naked."
"Yeah. I know. I didn't
think about that."
- Che and Seth
"I've been emailing
Bullit as my Mon for like a month now..."
- Kaitlin, in a perfectly plausible plot
"Sometimes when I like
someone I, eh, kind of, eh, stalk them."
- Taylor
"My whole life I've
been completely powerless before people who say they have feelings for
me."
- Taylor
"This plan is insane!
It'll never work."
"Seth, when the universe
intends for something to happen, it'll happen."
- Seth and Che
"You realize this is
the second time you and I've spent the night together?"
"So."
"So, does that mean
anything to you?"
"You'll be going on
your little adventures by yourself from now on?"
- Che and Seth
"Groundhog! It wasn't
an otter at all."
- Che, interpreting a vision correctly after all
"In another life brother."
- Che to Seth
"What did Che mean
when he said in another life. In another life what?"
- Seth
"I can not believe
that you tried to steal Newport Chuck."
"Sometimes the universe
makes you do things that we don't understand."
"Well Sandy didn't
seem too upset about it."
"Are you kidding?
He's waited 18 years for me to be arrested for political activism. It's
probably the proudest moment of his entire life."
- Ryan and Seth
"Omigod!"
"Omigawd!"
"That's what I said."
- Seth, Ryan and Sandy, after hearing Kirsten's news
"Yeah. Well, congratulations."
"Yeah, it's great.
Especially since it makes me getting arrested looks trivial now."
"You got what?"
"Thanks for prepping
her, dad."
- Ryan, Seth and Kirsten
"Were you just trying
to stalk me?"
"Yeah, I guess I need
a little more practice."
"That is the most
romantic thing anyone has ever done for me."
- Taylor and Ryan
"It'll be awkward."
"I've never met an
awkward silence I couldn't fill."
- Ryan and Taylor
"I mean, your dad and
Julie Cooper. It's just so—"
"Incestuous. Inappropriate."
"Well look at you
all articulate."
- Taylor and Ryan
"Sometimes I feel like
I'm going to be listening to her snide comments for the rest of my life."
- Kirsten about Taryn (flashback)
"What if we are each
other's Jimmy Coopers? You know, the one before the one you're meant to
be with?"
- Summer to Seth
"This my friend, marks
the first moment I fell in love with Summer Roberts. It was the spring.
1998."
"Is this a long flashback?
'Cause my break's almost over."
"Bear with me."
- Seth and Ryan
"Listen Townsend I'm
playing for Team Bullit."
- Kaitlin, shipping for a Julie-Bullit match
"I forgot what we're
dealing with here: Atwoods on Valentine's Day."
- Taylor, trying to come up with a plan with Frank and Ryan
"We're from the same
world."
- Frank, on his connection to Julie
"What is that? What
are you wearing?"
- Julie, spotting Kaitlin's "Team Bullit" tshirt
"I'm following your
decoy limo!"
"Then I'm following
you!"
- Kaitlin and Ryan
"So, Julie's had enough
of the old Bullit, eh?"
"We can still play
ping pong together."
"C'mon. You know I
let you win."
"No you don't."
"Yes I do."
"In your dreams."
"You ever seen that
movie Casablanca?"
"No."
"Well it goes like
this: 'Peanut, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship'."
- Bullit and Kaitlin, on the runway
"I believe that my
destiny's with you, but I have other destinies."
- Summer to Seth
"The Bullit went to
prison and he was awesome. But you're just boring."
- Kaitlin to Frank
"It's pretty much the
nature equivalent of a chick-flick."
- Seth, unimpressed by a nature documentary
"Do not insult Al Gore!"
- Summer to Seth
"I don't understand
how you're not drunk?"
"Oh, it's the Atwood
genes, we're built to withstand massive quantities of alcohol."
- Taylor and Ryan
"I know! I know! Bad
Taylor. I shouldn't have tried to get you drunk."
- Taylor to Ryan
"It's hard dating someone
who won't tell you how they're feeling and having to interpret hand signals..."
- Taylor
"I think that grace
under pressure is very important and I don't want you to think I'm lacking
in it."
- Taylor to Ryan
"Did he hear something
about aftershocks? Looters?"
"Zombies? Yeah, my
first thought too."
- Summer and Seth, getting updated on the situation from Sandy
"Don't you think the
boys are acting weird?"
"Shifty looks, finishing
each other's sentences, like they're composing a lie on the spot? Totally
normal for them."
- Taylor and Summer, discussing Ryan and Seth
"Do you want to make
a list up?"
"How about all the
people you've punched in the face since you came to Newport?"
- Ryan and Seth, trying to take their mind off things
"...That was more of
a tackle."
- Ryan, taking issue with one of the punches chosen by Seth
"Go for it, there was
a flippin' earthquake!"
- Kaitlin, to Julie and Frank
"After all the times
you saved me I was up."
- Seth to Ryan
THE END'S NOT NEAR — IT'S HERE
"Ryan, have you talked
to her?"
"Oh, no, haven't read
her blog, haven't looked at her scrapbook, it's over and I am OK. It's
been months, I barely even think about her."
- Kirsten and Ryan, about Taylor
"She's 6000 miles away
and still annoying."
- Kaitlin about Taylor
"...That old married
couple upstairs."
- Sandy, about Seth and Summer
"This chair is my home
now."
- Seth
"Boy, the apple doesn't
fall far from the tree..."
- Kaitlin, meeting the rest of the Bullit clan
"Come on, sunshine
is burning! ...I'm late."
- Bullit, hurrying the gang along
"I've got my shoes,
my dress, my cheat-sheet with the names of all my step-brothers..."
- Kaitlin, preparing for the wedding
"He's probably gonna
come out wearing a cowboy hat telling the doctor 'Bang'."
"...or a wifebeater."
- Kaitlin and Julie, expecting a brother
"I think my little
sister deserves a shot at growing up normal."
- Seth, hoping for a move from Newport
"You know, I thought
Atwoods were good at fighting."
- Kaitlin to Frank
"Look at that full
head of hair... If I look half as good as you in 20 years I'll be a happy
man."
- Seth to Sandy
"She's beautiful, isn't
she?"
"She really will be
in two years when she doesn't look like a squished meatball."
- Sandy and Seth, about Sophie
"Maybe I'll just struck
up a casual romance with one of the Bullits... Ok, who do you think is
hotter? El Paso or San Antonio? Hanoi has a certain charm."
- Taylor to Summer
"Omigod..."
- Todd and Patrick meet the wedding party
"Thank you so much
for Flapjacks."
"And don't forget
to clean his cage — which should not be used for cage fighting."
- Ryan and Summer, with a parting gift
"At least I leave you
funnier that when I found you."
- Seth to Ryan
"Hey kid, you need
any help?"
- Ryan
When The OC debuted,
audiences outside the immediate demographic found themselves engaged by
Schwartz's blend of teen angst and Jewish neuroses, his hyperverbal emo-
and anime-obsessed adolescents and his portrayal of sexily dependable parents.
Schwartz had an original voice. In the homogenised world of American network
TV, an original voice is a gift and a curse. If your voice speaks to a
segment of the audience, they'll stick with you for life. But a successful
show opens innumerable doors of opportunity. Schwartz's plate was so full
of spin-offs, pilots and movies that he handed over the reins of The OC
to trusted subordinates who failed to replicate his tone, butchered his
vision, and generally made a pig's ear of the third season, alienating
a sizeable, never-to-return chunk of audience.
- Jonathan Bernstein, "The Guardian"
Marissa’s lesbian flirtations
with Alex (Olivia Wilde) was actually handled well, considering it occurred
on a Fox show during sweeps.
- The Chicago Tribune's Maureen Dyan reflects on The OC
Ryan's stint as a cage
fighter: So what do you do to get over the death of your soulmate? Well
take a job as a cage fighter of course! At least that's how teenagers combat
grief in The OC. In an attempt to deal with his anger following Marisa's
death, Ryan takes a job in a seedy bar where he becomes a barman by day
and wrestles as a cage fighter by night. In a bid to emphasise his fragile
state of mind, he doesn't actually fight in these matches but instead simply
allows himself get beaten to a pulp on a regular basis.
The incestuous love-triangles:
There have been some bizarre relationships between the central characters
as their lives have criss-crossed over the course of the four seasons.
In season one, Ryan dates Marisa, whilst Marisa's mother, Julie, has an
affair with Marisa's ex-boyfriend, Luke. Then Julie marries Caleb Cohen,
Ryan's step-grandfather, making Marisa, Ryan's aunt. In season two, Ryan
hooks up with Lindsey, who turns out to be his stepmother's sister. For
Ryan, this means another relationship with an aunt.
The lesbian relationship
: Within six or seven episodes of season two, poor Marisa has developed
alcoholism and depression after a summer without Ryan. Drinking from the
moment she wakes up, she also tries drugs before deciding to experiment
with her sexuality. Despite craving Ryan, she decides she is a lesbian
and hooks up with Seth's ex-girlfriend, Alex. This relationship develops
at a rate of knots and within an episode Marisa moves in with Alex. Two
episodes later and Marisa is back with Ryan, but not before Alex has challenged
Ryan to a fight.
- The Irish Independent picks some of The OC's wildest storylines
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the First or Second
or Third Seasons.
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each episode at The
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